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nanja C
17 hours ago
Well here we have a Black man going after the "thug", giving a description to the cops of the man, his car and license plate, risking his life not knowing if the "thug" could turn around and try to kill him, but not a single word of recognition by the cops or citizens. Mr. Edwards gave the cops the license number yet the cops did not track this "thug" down over 4 hours. Just how long does it take this stupid police department to access the DMV or their own data base to get the licensee and address of this murdering pig? obviously way too long.
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cliffndort
16 hours ago
The truck was not registered to Woods. They tracked the truck to the owner who said he had loaned it to his friend, Woods. Then they found the truck at Wood's home.
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Ken Schabelski
16 hours ago
.. five more minutes to get to Wood's house after grilling owner of the van. This should have taken minutes after they got the number from the neighbor. This is gross incompetence at the very least. May have saved a girl's life, but we'll never know now...
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Fodder Mail
10 hours ago
The owner was one of Woods's parents.
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Glen Roggenbuck
13 hours ago
According to the Kansas City Star the police were waiting for the suspect at his home when he returned there at 8:30pm. The little girl was already dead inside the house. It would appear that the police did as much as they could to find this girl. Who is stupid now?
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Ken Schabelski
9 hours ago
...hours and hours when it could have been minutes. Stupid has nothing to do with it. Timing does. She very well may have already been dead but the facts it took as long as they made it doesn't even sound right...
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Gail Neuman
5 hours ago
No one knows that the girl was already dead inside the house when the cops came to talk to him. And why did the neighbors not report hearing a gun shot?
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Beverly Marsh
3 hours ago
The cops found him in his driveway and went for a search warrant. Mr. Woods was not allowed to re-enter his home at that point so we can logically assume that Hailey was already dead inside.
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Tomas Reynoso
3 hours ago
I'll disagree with you Glen. Once they arrived at the home they could have easily articulated to a judge that imminent/immediate entry was necessary to make the attempt to determine whether the victim was in the house and the hope of saving her life should she still be alive. I in no way can not see a judge not signing this search warrant.
Under Exigent circumstances,
probable cause along with exigent circumstances may justify a search or entry without a warrant. This is also known as the “emergency doctrine.” Article 14.05 of the Code of Criminal Procedure also includes a provision that authorizes officers to enter homes without a warrant with exigent circumstances. Exigent circumstances cases typically involve:
• protection of life (first aid; extracting children who appear in danger; protecting an undercover officer or informer; or making a protective sweep);
• protection of property (such as extinguishing a fire or stopping a burglary);
• preventing destruction of evidence;6and
• pursuing a fleeing felon (“hot pursuit”).
Remember that exigent circumstances may justify the initial entry in the house, but because the purpose of the exception is to aid someone in distress or to secure safety, once the crisis is contained, further searching is not permitted. A warrant or another exception may authorize continued searching of the premises, however, and officers can secure the scene for the time it takes to get a warrant. The exigent circumstances doctrine also does not include a general murder scene exception that would authorize unlimited search of the premises, although officers may enter a home to provide immediate aid or to search for other victims or a killer.
Because the exigent circumstances exception is typically applied in cases where officers need to make a warrantless entry rather than a warrantless stop or detention, the exigent circumstances exception typically will not be relevant in a traffic stop. It may become relevant, however, if a driver flees police, abandons his vehicle, and runs into a house or building.
Protection of life
Four circumstances must be present when officers enter a home, without consent or warrant, to search under these circumstances:
• the offender might escape if police do not make an immediate entry;
• the offender has demonstrated that he poses a danger to the community (for instance, the crime just committed is a crime of violence);
• the offender has been pursued into the house continuously from the crime scene; and
• the warrantless arrest would be lawful if accomplished in a public place but that cannot be done because of the suspect’s decision to retreat into a private place.
In Warden v. Hayden, the Supreme Court held the entry into a house by officers in pursuit of an armed robber was justified because any delay to secure a warrant would place the lives of others in danger. The information must be fairly specific, however; merely investigating a potential danger may not justify warrantless entry.
Information about someone the defendant has harmed may be sufficient to justify entry into the place where officers reasonably believe the victim to be. Search of a person police find unconscious is reasonable and necessary for purposes of identification and possible discovery of relevant medical information.
Exige*nt circumstances may allow officers to improve their ability to view inside the defendant’s residence, for instance, by placing a ladder against the building.
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Jayne Doe
8 hours ago
What does his race have to do with it? That's extraneous information.
Would you like to take back that illegitimate criticism of the police department, now?
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Ladymom011
6 hours ago
I just wish Mr. Edwards had had a shotgun at hand and knew how to use it.
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dynks66
4 hours ago
Why do you race-baiting fools think that everything happens only because of a person's skin color???
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Nemo
3 hours ago
What does the hero of this story's skin color have to do with anything, except revela the type of person you are?
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Maddiee88
3 hours ago
Please don't make this about race. Carlos Edwards is a decent, caring and brave MAN. He put himself in harms way without concern for his own safety. His only thought was to save a little girl. This is what makes him such an incredible and heroic MAN! May he be blessed for the rest of his life.
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Jose
2 hours ago
really dude .....
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Randy Brown
18 hours ago
WHO'S A THUG!
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Ken Schabelski
17 hours ago
...how many comments do you see here? There's yer answer...
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Anonymous
15 hours ago
Good job Carlos Edwards. That was someone's beloved child. These monsters need to be in jail or beaten to death instead of preying on innocent children. My heart goes out to the grieving parents.
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Fodder Mail
10 hours ago
I agree. Carlos is a bright spot in this heartbreaking story.
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maria c
16 hours ago
Carlos Edwards helped find a killer, who is off the streets, so sad the police werent' faster.
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mnw28
17 hours ago
The neighbor did more to save this girl than the cops did. How did they not send someone to the home of the license plate registrant right away?
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cliffndort
16 hours ago
They did. The registered owner was not Woods. The owner of the truck loaned it to Woods.
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Sarah McCloskey
16 hours ago
The owner should be charged as an accessory to the crime.
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Anonymous
15 hours ago
The owner of the truck wasn't involved in the crime in any way, shape or form. Maybe we should charge you for slander?
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Taiga 24
13 hours ago
I highly doubt the owner knew what the coach was going to do. Please use your brain.
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Gail Neuman
4 hours ago
His dad owns the truck and lives in another town so no, he's not responsible as an accessory for his deadbeat son's crime.
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brocktonbob
2 hours ago
@Sarah-----------You are a moron.
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Gail Neuman
5 hours ago
The owner of the truck was his father as the article stated
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Libby Sherburne
16 hours ago
My condolences to little Hailey's family. I commend the neighbors for getting involved, even though this was a horrible ending. At least this "coach" is out of the school and off our streets.
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Rachel Godoy
14 hours ago
Who knows how many children this pervert had been eyeing. He worked in an environment that fueled his sick fantasies. Watch him plead Not Guilty and his defense lawyer will play the world's tiniest violin just for him.
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Beverly Marsh
13 hours ago
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how many other children he has tried to grab or otherwise molested. Miscreants like him don't start these behaviors at his age.
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Ladymom011
5 hours ago
He actually looks fairly young but prematurely gray. No wrinkles, smooth skin. He may have been doing this for a while as you say but he seems to be within the right age range still.
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Beverly Marsh
3 hours ago
He's 45 and that's is late in life to be starting this behavior. I will be shocked if the little girl was not molested. That will come out in an autopsy. These guys don't start this behavior at 45.....statistics show that the "average" pedophile abuses over 100 children in their lifetime.
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Bob Smith
18 hours ago
Time line seems off and doesn't bode well for the local police. She was witnessed at 4:50 being abducted with a recorded plate number and nobody locates the car for another few hours? You find the car at the guys house and yet it still takes another few hours to get a search warrant? I highly suspect that this girl could have been recovered safely.
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Amy Johnson
17 hours ago
I agree, If I see something like this forget calling the cops. I'd chase them myself. Reported with a plate number at 4:50 pm and not located until 2:30 am - nearly 10 hours later! If that plate is registered to that address the cops will have a lot of explaining to do.
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Ladymom011
6 hours ago
Carlos did give chase but without a weapon, what more could he do?
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cliffndort
16 hours ago
Other articles said that the truck was not Wood's. It was registered to another person who he loaned it to Wood, and gave the police Wood's address, where they found the truck in the driveway, with no Hailey in it. They then went for the search warrant for Wood's home, where did find this poor little girl. I would bet that she had been raped and killed within one hour of her abduction, but I will wait to hear the autopsy report.
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Ken Schabelski
16 hours ago
...should have gotten her within the hour regardless...
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Beverly Marsh
16 hours ago
The parents announced to the local media that their daughter had been found sometime before midnight.. The local police department didn't confirm until the early hours. I just wish that the cops hadn't waited around for a warrant. But my guess is the little girl was probably dead not too long after the kidnapping.
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Rachel Godoy
14 hours ago
Perpetrators like Craig Wood seldom leave their victim alive to identify them. I wonder if Hailey Owens was even his first victim. Thank goodness Mr. and Mrs. Edwards witnessed the abduction and noted the truck's license plate numbers. Otherwise, CW might have been at large a lot longer.
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Greg smith
15 hours ago
This makes me sick to my stomach. This guy robbed a child of her life. Lets leave the race card out of this.(i know, to much to ask)
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Taiga 24
13 hours ago
Of course that is too much to ask. Some posters must use "the race card" in every news story to push some silly agenda.
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thomas martin
9 hours ago
Taga.....you speak the truth, the race baiting liberal progressive types like
Poetic Justice and Dubya dummy have used the story of this poor little girl
to be political...its all they have given their narrow pathetic lives.
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Poetic Justice
3 hours ago
The only time hypocrites like Thomas Martin beg to keep race out is when the criminal is white. A black person commits a crime and idiots are all over the article blaming every black person in the universe. You people are so pathetic.
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dynks66
4 hours ago
Exactly. These people whining about race in every single story on this site are the ones destroying the values of this country and dividing it for no reason.
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Poetic Justice
3 hours ago
You should post that comment when the criminal is black and we have to wade through a bunch of racist comments.
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Roy Munson
13 hours ago
Dennis Smith will blame this on Muslims
Adam Billings will blame it on gays
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Cool Man
6 hours ago
Dennis Smith is a coward and will never show up here.
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dondonb90
9 hours ago
The gentleman who took down the plate number and chased the truck is a hero. He did everything he could to help. Most people panic and forget to get a plate number. God bless him.
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